The Change 3: Paris by Guy Adams

Author:Guy Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

Chapter Thirteen

FINALLY, ACROSS THE street from the Olympia theatre, still advertising a gala night of music as if it were the most important thing in the world, we stopped running and checked to see if we’d been followed. There was no sign of anyone, not the Impressionists, the Tricoteuses or, for that matter, any of the other people that had been brought for sacrifice to the hungry guillotine.

‘My ankle,’ said Gabi, ‘they stood on it.’

‘Let me have a look,’ suggested Adrien, as if he had all the medical training she might need.

‘I’ll do it,’ I said, carrying on quickly as I could already see the look of disappointment growing on his face. He didn’t like me suggesting he wasn’t capable of anything. Always so eager to prove himself. Had I been like that? I’d probably been too busy watching out for myself around the house, hiding from Uncle Jean. ‘You take a look up the street, not far, just enough to make sure the coast’s clear, we don’t want something creeping up on us.’

He nodded and jogged a little way up the road.

‘Stay where I can see you!’ I called. ‘Just in case.’

He rolled his eyes at that but I didn’t care, the last thing I needed was for him to get snatched by something, I’d only just got him back.

I looked at Gabi’s ankle. It was puffy and turning red. I roughed up a bandage using her socks, tying it as tightly as possible and then told her she would be getting a piggy-back ride for the rest of the day. That seemed an exciting enough prospect that she forgot about how much her ankle was hurting for a few minutes.

Adrien was stood a little way up the street so, lifting Gabi onto my shoulders, I walked up to join him.

‘Where’s the closest way back?’ he asked.

I told him, but obviously, I’m not telling you. Suffice to say it was a longer walk than I would have liked. Without Antonio I didn’t want to risk getting lost, so we’d have to go underground at a familiar spot that I knew I could lead us home from. That would take some walking.

‘Well,’ he said, ‘if you get tired carrying Gabi I can always take over.’

‘I’ll hold you to that.’

We walked up the street a short way, Adrien doing his very best to act as if this was all in a day’s work. I knew him well enough to see the nervousness beneath; he might be determined to pretend that everything was in his stride but the fear was only buried a short way under the surface.

Spotting a café I decided it was worth a look just in case raiders like me had either missed it or left something behind. None of us had eaten for a long time.

We weren’t the first to have found the place and the kitchen had been cleared out of pretty much everything. At least the water was still running so we could drink.

I was just

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